The book “Jesus Calling”. Apparently, this is a somewhat popular book in Christian circles. Thanks to the brother who passed along this warning about it. Here is a snippet: “Because millions of Christians have now read Sarah Young’s book and millions more will be reading it in the future, and because Sarah Young and her publisher, Thomas Nelson, are targeting children with the 365 Devotions for Kids, and because there is even a Jesus Calling Devotional Bible on the market now, we are compelled to take this matter seriously and pray that all of our readers will too.”. You can read the newsletter here: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2014/newsletter20141110.htm

There is a Ratio Christi event this Friday evening Nov. 14th (primarily college age, but others welcome for sure): Come out to the next Ratio Christi ASU Tempe chapter meeting this Friday night, November 14, at 7:00pm at C3 (http://c3tempe.org). Friday night will feature local apologist, Vocab Malone, who will be speaking on the topic of Textual Criticism and the Bible. Vocab has a local apologetics radio show that can be found at: http://backpack.podbean.com. I would encourage you to check out Backpack Radio, and come Friday night ready to discuss. It’s sure to be a relevant topic and great conversation!

Blinded by evolutionary brainwashing – “Genes tend to mutate/degrade with time, not get better,” he said. “Mutations, even small ones, are very rarely, if ever, really beneficial and even when they are, they generally either involve loss of function and/or are in some way a corruption of information. For example, a mutation that breaks down the efficiency of molecular pumps for a bacterium to draw nutrients from its environment means that it will better survive certain antibiotics. But it is a damaged bacterium, so when the antibiotic is removed, it will be less able to cope than its non-resistant fellows. Sure, one can put an insulin gene into a microbe and get it making lots of insulin but it will still be a microbe. No amount of detailed genetic manipulation in the laboratory will turn a microbe into a worm or a fly. So it certainly won’t happen spontaneously even over millions of years. And natural selection won’t change that. We can see it happening, but the effects are trivial compared to this downhill tendency in our DNA. So, to me, evolution or Darwinism just can’t happen. See more at:

I pray that you’ll all have opportunities for you to use this information to fulfill the words of Colossians 4:5-6: “Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” Have a great rest of your week!